23^ on taste in architecture, -^^g. 22. 



bake cakes for angels when they came, and for mere 

 men when angels were not so common. The smoke 

 in this adject would be disposed of in the same man- 

 ner, but at the extremity of the area, leaving room 

 only for b-inches or seats of stone or turf, around 

 which the females or servants would sit, after the 

 labours of the day were over, and every fhepherd 

 would tell, or repeat his tale, as he had done hereto- 

 fore under the hawthorn tree. 



" Extrema fer ilhsjustkia cxccdiui terr'n 



*' Vestigia feiiu 



Fair virtue then and freedom, b!eit 



Arcadian fhepherds s ^N ; 



Astrea's steps they foidly prest, 



And sought no other Ijw ! 



GOLDEN FLEECE, StanzO iv. 



But the inclemency of the weather, in the more 

 northern and antartic regions of the earth, would 

 render it nccefsary to fence dwellings more effectual- 

 ly from cold and moisture ; and, during the rainy 

 seasons, within the tropics, these houses would be 

 found quite inadequate to the protection and comfort 

 of the people. They would, therefore, fix deeply in 

 the soil, or in rock where it could be obtained, large 

 straight stemmed trees, placed in the same circular 

 form, at convenient distances, and wattling the inter- 

 stices with oziersor withes, would coat them over with 

 clay and mud, beat into plaister, with the admixture 

 of dried leaves, or other decayed vegetables, to keep 

 the\naterlals together. This hypothesis is verifyed 

 by the writers referred to in the margin, and by the 

 testimony of all our modern circumnavigators*. 



• Diodorus Sicuh.s. lib. i. p. 5z. S .n^h m apud Euseh. p. 35. Vovsg^s- 

 a Perou par M. Bou^jer, p. 8 and 10 Plin. lib. 7. ^ 57. and p. 413'. 

 The travels and voy.ig''s of C«iks^ SuLmderj Cojke^ &c. &c. 



